- #EVENFLO GOLD REVOLVE 360 VS CYBEX HOW TO#
- #EVENFLO GOLD REVOLVE 360 VS CYBEX INSTALL#
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This base is not like the base on an infant seat:, although the seating area part of the Revolve does come off (it’s called the shell in the manual) they can’t be used separately. The base on the Revolve 360 is definitely in camp awesome.
#EVENFLO GOLD REVOLVE 360 VS CYBEX INSTALL#
When you install a lot of car seats like I do you quickly notice if a feature is awesome, or not so much. The Revolve 360 is not going to have room to rotate if installed directly next to another car seat, so if you are looking at a 3-across the Revolve is not a good choice. Yes, you could even install it in the middle (where rear-facing seats tend to have more front-to-back space to work with) but by doing so you’d really lose the functionality of the rotation because you’d be leaning into the middle seat to load. The Revolve 360 is likely not a good choice in super compact vehicles but it’s worth a try if you really want to make it work. Larger vehicles may have enough room for kids to walk past a rotated Revolve 360 installed in the second row, to access the 3rd row.
You may find the rotating feature handy if you have children riding in the 3rd row. Generally, the Revolve 360 is better-suited to vehicles that have more front-to-back space, but I also tried it with my Honda Civic, and it was highly functional there too with my 5’8” self sitting comfortably in front of it. I am over 40 and getting more decrepit by the day, so my out-of-practice toddler-wrangling self appreciated not having to hoist and twist sideways to load a toddler. I could use the floorboard as a staging area to remove my little buddy’s coat (practice safe winterwear people, even in Winnipeg when it’s -30℃, which was a lot of days last winter), lift him straight up into the seat, get him buckled, remove boots, coat back on like a blanket, and then rotate into the locked travel position. I really enjoyed the access and ease of loading with the Revolve 360 and my van. This makes for great access to my 2nd row and if you have been resisting a van let me tell you, I’m never going back. I drive a Honda Odyssey, which means I have plenty of roof clearance, and a sliding door. As kids get heavier the rotation will require more effort to manage. It’s a smooth motion but toddlers and preschoolers with boots on will need to lift their feet a bit to avoid bumping up against the base. It will depend on your dexterity and the weight of your child and how cooperative they are. You might be able to rotate it one-handed, or may need a second hand to guide the turn. You must never, ever drive with the child side-facing, that is not a travel mode and is very unsafe.
#EVENFLO GOLD REVOLVE 360 VS CYBEX HOW TO#
Evenflo has instructions for how to unjam it, but best to avoid that situation. If you do try to force it all the way around when it is not on the setting where that’s possible you might jam it. You are really only going from side-loading to rear-facing travel, and back again.
#EVENFLO GOLD REVOLVE 360 VS CYBEX FULL#
You can rotate a full circle in one of the recline settings, but you don’t need to so don’t worry about the fact that you can’t in all three rear-facing recline settings. It’s visually interesting and I had several people approach me in parking lots while I was loading or unloading to ask me what it was, and I was happy to share my thoughts. We know that’s what draws your attention as it certainly did ours. This review features the Evenflo Revolve 360° GOLD but the standard version has many of the same features and I will point out where the GOLD differs. Of course it has limitations, as do all seats, but it’s a really interesting choice and a game changer when accessibility is needed. It’s well-designed, it’s nice to use, and it offers some super features. So many interesting ways to put a clever spin on this seat (haha, see what I did there?), but it doesn’t need slick marketing to convince me. I also noticed recently that Walmart had the Revolve on sale for $360 and I wondered if that was someone in marketing or sales being really crafty. And do you see that I settled on the really exciting “Evenflo Revolve 360?” Sigh. I started drafting this review in my head before I actually sat down to write it, and distracted myself with witty titles, usually involving songs with ‘spin, revolve, or around’ in them, and of course that sent me down the rabbit hole and I listened to all sorts of songs I didn’t know existed. I had the chance to use the Revolve 360 Rotational All-in-One car seat for a few weeks when I had a friend and her young child visit…and the short version of this review is that I love it.
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